Yocto Job Trends in Scotland

Yocto Project
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Yocto skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 147 190
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 +22
Permanent jobs citing Yocto 4 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.039% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.23% 0.17% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.69% +2.50% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Yocto falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 324 590 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.73% 23.02% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 123 340 533
10th Percentile - £33,750 £39,050
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £71,875 £70,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Yocto
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Yocto relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Yocto job vacancy trend in Scotland

Yocto
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Yocto.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Yocto

Yocto
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Yocto within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Lothian +11 4 £65,000 -
Yocto
UK

Yocto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 4 (100.00%) RS-232
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C